Avdiivka is not a big loss from a military point of view.
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The city as such no longer exists, because the infrastructure was almost completely destroyed by massive Russian bombing. The head of the military committee of the North Atlantic Alliance, Rob Brower, stated this in a commentary to Foreign Policy.
In military terms, this is not a big loss. They destroyed the entire infrastructure. That’s why there is no city. There are still a couple of hundred meters,” he noted.
The NATO admiral also agreed with the words of military experts and analysts that the situation on the battlefield is serious. However, he does not believe that Ukraine is losing the battle.
Pessimists lose wars. Is it hard for Ukraine? Yes. If you had asked in Europe in 1942: “How is the war going?”, I don’t think there would have been many optimists. We still won,” Brouwer emphasized.
Let us remind you that on February 17, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, said that the Defense Forces left the city in order to avoid a cordon by the enemy. President Volodymyr Zelensky said leaving the city was a logical and professional decision for the sake of military lives.
The Ukrainian command stated that over the past four months of the active phase of the battle for Avdiivka, the Russian army of conquest has lost more than 47 thousand soldiers and more than 1 thousand 300 units of military equipment. In particular, the enemy used GRU special forces during the “meat assaults” and partially lost the combat capabilities of their best units.
Source: Foreign Policy
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